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STATE HISTORICAL SSCIETT CCLUSSIA, KO. UN fl6)DPDBMI THE MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN FRANKLIN COUNTY Established In the Year 1865 UNION, FRANKLIN COUNTY. MISSOURI. THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1956 10 CENTS VOLUME 91-No. 20 Recover 5 Rifles Stolen from Club House On Meramec Deputy Sheriff Earl Bailey returned Tuesday from a trip to Kansas City where he recovered five rifles abandoned in the woods near the city by three young Inmates of the Franklin County jail. James H. Richardson, 17, Bourbon, went along on the trip with Bailey and showed him where the rifles had been hidden. Three of the rifles had been stolen by the boys from a clubhouse owned by Walter Kautzner of Affton, on the Old Bowman Place near Meramec State Park. The other two are thought to have been stolen in Crawford County and brought along on the trip which finally ended in their arrest in Kansas. Richardson, along with Junior Lloyd McClary, 18, and Russell H. Mercer, ID, both of Berger, left Bourbon on June 12 in a stolen motor boat. The owner was on hand to meet them when they arrived at Meramec State Park but the boys fled into the woods when they were hailed and told to bring the boat to shore. It was Thursday that they are believed to have stolen a car in St. Clair and started for Kansas City where they were apprehended by authorities. They were brought to Franklin County jail later where they are awaiting trial on the car theft charge. Wins Fishing Trip To Canada Ben Thomas of the local Kroger Store was advised by the Kroger Company this week that he had won a trip to Canada in the Hormel Hamarama Contest. As a member of the Winners' Circle, Thomas will leave St. Louis Sunday, July 15 by air for Interna tional Falls and go from there by car and boat to Gwan-At-Shi-Wan Island. Fishing, golf and sightseeing are on the agenda with an excursion to Fort Frances, Canada, also. The group will return to St. Louis on Wednesday, July. 18 at 8 p.m. - -. Two Found Guilty Ask for Parole Two men entered pleas of guilty to grand larceny in circuit court last week and filed applications for parole. They are Edmund Carl Lang and Howard Franklin Tinnell. Each was sentenced to two years in the State Penitentiary. Applications for parole were taken under advisement by Judge Joseph T. Tate. Voiture 301 Forty & Eight Elects Offictrs New officers were elected at Augusta July 6, at the meeting of Voiture 301, 40 et 8. Delegates and alternates were also selected for the Grand Promenade at St. Joseph July 27, 28 and 29. The delegates: Walter Buchholtz, Chas. Dreimey-er, Richard Hoemann, Waldrew Meyer and Clarence. The alternates: Edwin Vedder, Gilmore Pfeiffer, E. G. Labit, William Strithman and Eddie Leesman. Officers for the coming year are: Chef de Gare, Waldrew Meyer, Augusta; Chef de Train, Gilmore Pfeiffer, Union; Commissaire In-tendant, Henry Tibbe, Union; Correspondent, Oliver Bachus, Augusta; Aumonier, Eldon Kandlebinder, St. Clair; Commis Voyageur, Frank Fink, Union; Garde de la Porte, Eddie Leesman, Washington; Lampiste, Emmet Reed, St. Clair; Conducteur, Matthew Hamilton, New Haven; Sous Conducteur, James Arnett, Pacific; Cheminoux Lacaux, Chas. Dreimeyer, Marthas-ville; Harvey Eckman, New Haven; James Desmond, New Haven; and Grand Cheminot, Walter Buchholtz, New Haven. The Weeks Weather Temperatures extremes, rainfall and Bourbeuse River stages (feet above normal) as reported by U. S. Weather Bureau Observer Cornelius Sieges. Rainfall is measured at 7 a.m. daily. Thus, rainfall for Thursday is actually rainfall between 7 a.m. Wednesday and 7 a.m. Thursday. A trace is an amount too small to measure. For the week ending Tuesday, July 10: High Low Rain 90 67 M 83 68 .02 86 62 .... 89 60 .... 85 65 JSO 77 62 .... 83 S3 . Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Represents Union At Heart Of America Show Miss Mary Anna Krieger of Union will represent the Union Furniture Company of this city the Heart of America Furniture Market to be held in Kansas City August 3 to 6, as a candidate for queen. Miss Krieger, 22, is a graduate of Union High School and secre tary for the Union Furniture Com pany. She will compete with contest ants from furniture companies throughout Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri. Three winners will be select ed to attend the Market Luncheon in Kansas City at which time the queen will be named. In addition to her other honors, the queen will receive a mink stole as her badge of honor. Kenneth Wehmueller of the sponsoring company will also at tend the Market at which more than 2,000 leading midwest furniture dealers select the latest styles of furniture for winter showing. Union Man Award ed $15,000 for Per- Injuries A jury heard testimony in a dam age suit Monday and awarded the plaintiff the exact amount of damages prayed for in his petition. The plaintiff was Meivin Ober- haus of Union who charged he received personal injuries amounting to $15,000 and damages to his car amounting to $1,072.45 in an automobile accident in Jefferson City on August 21, 1955. The plaintiff was Eugene Em- mett Eichwald of Sullivan. Richard G. Shepard was foreman of the jury which reached a unanimous decision and found for the plaintiff in the sum of $16,072.45. Beaufort 4-H and Home Ec Clubs Celebrate Third annual Fourth of July cele bration sponsored by the Beau fort Home Economics Club opened with a colorful parade on Monday, July 2. Gaily decorated bicycles and floats participated along with the Beaufort 4-H candidate for queen, Margaret Boland. A display of fireworks closed the evening's entertainment. Prizes for the best bicycles went to Joyce Peters, Billy Knehansand Helen Segelhorst. Winners for the other vehicles were Brenda Eller brake, Diane Heidbrink and Jan Schuenemeyer. Another Wreck On Washington Road Norman Lee Speers, Washington, escaped without serious injuries when he lost control of his 1952 Oldsmobile and crashed about two and one-half miles south of Wash ington on Highway 47 at 2 a.m., July Fourth. Speers told the Highway Patrol that he thought he had dozed off while driving. He was .taken to the hospital with an injured left arm but was discharged when it was ascertained that he had no broken bones and only mionr injuries. YWA's To Hollister Mr. and Mrs. George Osborn and Mr. and Mrs. James Copeland drove a group of Union girls to Hollister last week to attend the YWA state camp aPthe State Bap tist Assembly. Mr. Osborn and Mr. Copeland drove on to Bull Shoals Lake for a fishing trip, returning Sunday to drive the group home, Attending from Union were Mary Jo Skaggs, Virginia Skaggs, Alice Skaggs, Marlene Campbell, Rosemary Copeland and Pat Os born, Mrs. Osborn, counsellor and Mrs. Copeland, assistant counsel lor. S: A Accuses Tenants Of Trying To II Put Her Away II Tourists,--who drove into town late Thursday afternoon with 74- year-old woman battling them in the front teat, caused a mild flurry of excitement when they stopped in front of the courthouse and tried to persuade local authorities to have their passenger placed in custody. The passenger was Mrs. Ora Bowers of Ohio. The tourists were tenants of Mrs. Bowers in Ohio who had agreed to take her along on a trip to California to visit relatives. They told Sheriff H. Bill Miller and Union police that Mrs. Bowers had become upset in California where she had been placed in a county home on a petition of men tal illness. Authorities had released her to be taken to her home in Akron where she owned property and could be properly cared for. She became violent at Spring field, they said, and at Sullivan where they stopped to eat had ac cused a waitress of trying to poison her. She claimed the couple was trying to have her put away so that they could get her money. Sheriff Miller explained that there were no facilities in the county for caring for such cases and advised them to take her to St. Louis where she could be treat ed and then released to authorities in her home county. Arrangements were made for a patrol car to escort them to St. Louis and nothing further was heard from them. Magistrate Court Parole Revoked for Drunkedness; In Jail Now Charles Bay, Union, was arrested Tuesday and brought into magis trate court where his parole was revoked for drinking. Bay was committed to jail to serve out his sentence on a peace distrubance charge. . A motorcycle rider and a Sulli van driver paid highest careless and reckless drivers fines for the week. Victor F. Meyer of Marthas ville, the cyclist, and William Tyree of Sullivan, each paid $250 but the latter was given a 60-day suspend ed jail sentence in addition to his fine. Hewie James Powell of Pacific was fined $50 and given a 60-day suspended jail sentence and Albert W. Mueller of Beaufort, a $50 fine Carl Dyer of St. Louis was fined $40 and Jack E. Aitken of East St Louis, $25. Courtney R. Harris of St. Louis paid $50. Fifteen other cases brought the total of 24 with total fines amount ing to $850.00. Punishment wis deferred in the case of Robert P. Golden of St Louis who was released on $500 bond and Walter E. Phinney of Springfield was given 30 days in jail, stayed, in addition to his fine of $5. Overlength and overweight fines brought a total of $100 with only two of the six defendants from this state. Two women and one man paid fines of $1 each with costs for fishing without 1956 permits. They were Beatrice and William Slaughter of St. Louis and Ruth Held of St. Ann. Leo C. Williams of Wagoner, Okla.. who paid $5 fine for driving an overweight vehicle, was also fined $140 for having no Public Service Commission authority. Also fined for the same charge were John Allen Amos, Los Angeles, $100; John J. Daugherty, Inman. Neb.. $50; Hosie E. White ner, Chicasha, Okla., $20; Kenneth R. Neilson, Hortonvtlle, Wis., $30; Cecil Faean. Dallas. $200; Will R Fuller, Ennis, Texas, $200; Gaylord Robuch, Janesville, Wis., $203 Jose Marie Munoz, Nogales, Ariz. $10. Elmer Lee Shovan, Denver, was fined $50 for having defective brakes and Jay Dee Garrison, Springdale, Ark., $10 for having an imoroDer muffler. Orville E. McCabe, St. Louis, paid $10 for permitting an un authorized person to drive. Walter Cass of St Clair was re leased on $2,000 bond on July 4, charged with breaking into the home of Richard Hemker ana tax ing personal property. His case is set for July 11. Also released was Jesse Thomas, 42, Guy, Kentucky, after being held in jail at Sullivan and then in county jail at union. Thomas was arrested after he drove from St. Clair to Sullivan on the wrong side of the highway and struck a tractor-trailer driven by Thomas F. Williams of Rolla The hearing is set for August 25, Bond for Thomas was set at $1,000 More Than 50,000 Gallons of Oil for Union Sheets Plus Over 1,000 Tons of Pea Gravel s)-rA , xy A V " ' ' A -A-As-? As?'-- Union's Street Department has since last week applying oil and pea gravel to the main streets. Before they are finished a majority of the streets will have been oiled. In fact, the oiling program .this year is about three times as large as last year. Applying New High School Building Plans Approved By Sfate Plans for Union's new high presented doctor and hospital bills school building have been appro ed by the State Department of Edu- cation, Superintendent Vergil Sis- son told the R-ll Board of Edu- cation at their regular meeting last Friday night. Sisson and the Board's architect, Raymond X. Grueninger, of St. Louis made a trip to Jefferson City the day before to confer with the state authorities. . Grueninger is now working oa details which will be submitted to the Board for final approval along with plans for the gymnasium in the near future. The Board expects to be able to call for bids within the next three months. The Board voted to extend the student accident and health insur- ance program inaugurated last year for another year. The program is purely voluntary and costs but $1.25 per year for any student wishing to participate. It was re- ported to the Board that a number of small claims had been paid by the company last year in addition to two large ones. One boy, injured while working in industrial arts, received between $300 and $400 and a second about $95 when he broke his arm. Both amounts re- Gerald Home Ec Achievement Day Well Attended Quick breads baked by Mrs. Lorene Francis, county home agent, were featured in the covered dish luncheon served at noon to guests attending the annual Achievement Day of the Community Home Economics Club at the home of Mrs. Ray Stanek, Gerald, on July 5. Also demonstrated by Mrs. Fran cis was linoleum block printing. Club members showed summer dresses and scrap books at the afternoon meeting and each re ceived a plant to cultivate during the summer and bring to the October Achievement Day for comparison.Girls from New Haven and Gerald 4-H Clubs gave demonstration on the use of milk and ice cream and Alan Meyer and George Stanek of Community 4-H Club demonstrated sheep raising. Members were asked to report at the August council meeting on prospective members of garden clubs in their neighborhoods. Ernest Oltmann called the square dances which followed the business meeting. On account of the club's boat trip the next meeting will be the second Thursday in August at night at the home of Mrs. John Boland. Attending the Achievement Day were Mrs. E. A. Birkmann, Mrs L. H. Kansteiner, Beaufort; Mrs. R. H. Pehle, Mrs. Ervin Rohlfing, over Leaf; Mrs. Lester Meyer, Mrs. Henry Hubenthal, Mrs. John Boland, Community Club: Mrs. Otto Schmidt, Mrs. Chester Brauks, Gerald Cooperative dub; Mrs. Ralph Deppennann, Mrs. George Schuenemeyer, Friendly Neighbors uud; Mrs. Robert Tbieme. Mrs. J. M. HcKnight, Gerald Homemakers; ' - - "" 1 '" " '-" ' ' i been busy pea gravel, after time. In the Curly Owens, er Oscar Lampkm, and Wm. Schafferkoetter gallons of oil and paid and costs of x-rays. W. G. Klepper was re-appointed treasurer for the Board for the coming school year. A report on the Summer Recrea Hon program showed that 140 stu- dents registered from both Public and I. C. Schools with an average attendance of about 40. Resignations of Mrs. Joanne Rogers, second grade teacher, and (Jeirg Billv bus driv expert AC- cepted.. Mrs. Rogers is moving to Wellston and Biller will ;?o into the package liquor business. No replacements have been se cured. Bus drivers and janitors will be hired at the next meeting of the Board. A report on the Elementary Summer School showed that Mrs. Hibbard taught 35 pupils in spell ing and reading; Arthur W. Davis, 5 pupils in eighth grade science and two pupils in American His tory; Gus Boehm, one high school senior who made up credits necess- ary for graduation. Ine summer school lasted from May 28 to July 6th. The Board also voted to divide the business of bus maintenance and repair equally betweenhe six new car agencies in Union. Utilities Assessed for $177,495,425 The assessment of the various public utilities in Franklin County has been certified to Eugene H. Osiek, county clerk. There is a substantial raise over last year of the 16 utilities, which includes the railroads, telegraph and telephone, pipe lines and electric companies. The total valuation including real estate and personal property amounts to $17,495,425. The Union Electric Co. is valued at $8,057,-058.00 and the Southwestern Bell Telephone at $2,697,150.00. With the personal property and real estate valuations as listed in the Tribune last week, the total valuation now is $60,275,012.00. When the Merchants and Manufacturers valuations are added to this amount, the valuation for this county may show an increase of over $1,300,000.00. Red Cross Meeting July 16 A Red Cross meeting has been called for Monday, July 16 at 8 p.m., in the county court room in Union, according to Mrs. E. A Stierberger, secretary. There will be important business to come before the meeting and all persons interested are urged to be present in order that Red Cross services and the Red Cross Blood Program may be confined in Franklin County. Mrs. John Disharoon, Mrs. Sidney Burt, Mrs. Oliver Taetz, Gray Sum mit; Miss Louis McDermott, Jolly Workers; Mrs. Frank Mehro, Mrs Doren Cresswell, Meramec Home- makers; Mrs. Perrin Farm, Mrs. Herbert Lottmann, Spring Bluff; Mist Elfrieda Sieve, Mrs. Ursa Maddox, Mrs. George Saum, Miss Arlene Saum, Sunshine Club; and Mrs. Lorene Francis, county home agent. (Dickey's Studio! I the oil bath, takes a lot of photo above, from the left is Coy Crider, Street Commission The city expects to use more than 50,000 over 1000 tons of pea gravel. County WPFA Gr JFA Days In Union July 20-21 The annual Assembly Day and County Convention of WPFA and JFA will be held jointly in the Union Elementary School. Entries in canning contest, articles, made from feed bags and JFA Crafts must be registered by 11 a.m. on Friday July 20th in the school cafeteria room. Judging will begin promptly at noon. County WPFA Convention meet ing will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, i July 2M in tM grH rhml aurt- itorium: The JFA Convention will be held at the tame time in a classroom of the grade school. Officers for the coming year will be elected at this time. A special feature of the morn ing for the ladies, is a report by County Home Agent Mrs. Lorene Francis. Awards will be given in the Membership Contest and Lady of the Year Contest. Points for the alter contest are to be turned n by 1 a m. the day of the con vention. Pennies for Friendship are to be turned in during the morning session. The afternoon program will be highlighted by the joint installa tion service of the newly elected officers of the JFA and WPFA, by Mrs. Henry Blesi, former county president. This will be followed by pecial recognition of the thirty year memDers, wnose names have been sent to the county secre tary. Franklin County's representa tive in the JFA Public Speaking Contest, Miss Sharon Carlson of Indian Prairie JFA, will address the gathering in the afternoon. All clubs are urged to send their quota of delegates to the conven tion. Visitors are most welcome and especially invited to view the display of canned foods and feed bag articles. There are 16 classes in the Feed Bag contest ranging from quilts to boys' suits and lingerie. There is no admission charge. The display will be in the basement cafeteria until 3 p.m. Saturday. State Aid To Schools In County Over Half Million County Superintendent O. E. Burke completed drafting the applica tion to the Slate of Missouri for state aid for the 195657 school year. In fact the grand total runs $631,488.00 which will be paid in three installments the August, December and March payments. High School districts, of course, receive the greatest amount, $395,658.00, with the reorganized elementary districts coming next with $105,753.00. Mr. Burke divided his applications Into three classifications, Gen eral Aid, Transportation and Exceptional Children Aid. Here are the applications for each one of these groups and their different classifications: GENERAL AID Common School Districts (3 directors) $ 35,528.00 Reorganized elementary districts 105,753.00 High School districts - 395,658.00 Common school districts (3 directors) $ 1,866 00 Reorgamzed elementary districts High School districts EACEtnUNALi High School districts (two) Total state school Money kcnooi Transportation Travels Over Half Million Mile During the school year 1955-56, units transported 2196 elementary school children and 822 high school students for a total of 453369 school days. These school buses traveled about 3360 miles each school day or a total of 988,000 mnes during uus past tcnooi year. Grand Jury To Check Report Of Some Gambling In County Acting at the request of County Prosecutor James A. Cole and Sheriff H. Bill Miller, Judge Jostph T. Tate issued an order in circuit court Monday calling for a grand Jury. Primary purpose of the grand jury, according to the Erosecuting attorney, will be to investigate all forms of gambl-lg in the county under the recent Supreme Court ruling. Both the prosecutor and the sheriff told a representative of the Tribune Tuesday that they had received complaints from citizens all over the county raffles, particularly at picnics. Sheriff Miller said that the list of jurors will not be ready for publication until next week since all had not been served. The grand jury will consist of twelve citizens who will hear testimony and then decide whether or not there are sufficent grounds for an indictment. While the principal purpose is the investigation of gambling, any forms of law violation may be presented to the group at that time. JFA Livestock Show In Union July 25th JFA Livestock Show groups of Warren and Franklin Counties met at the MFA HaU in Union last week to complete plans for the show to be given July 25 at the City Park in Union. Entries will be open to members from Warren and Franklin Counties and judging will be at 11 a.m. Committees appointed were: Publicity, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dueb-bert, Mrs. Harry Vogt, Mrs. Ruby Tappe, Mrs. Dorothy Minks; Fi nance, Ralph Bolzenius, Herbert Schowe, Fred Brehe; Poultry and Rabbits, Robert Zingre, Joe Jas per, Herman Leuker, Earl Schowe; Hogs, Beef k Sheep, Arthur Bruns, Aug. Johnson, Henry Blesi, W. O. Horn, assisted by the National Livestock group; Dairy, Arnold Thiermann, Willard Leuker, Harry Vogt and Norman Leesmann. Circuit Court Filing Brought on appeal from Magis trate court was a suit on account filed by Larry Hagedorn against Jim Moore. The appeal is from $20 against the defendant rendered in magistrate court on June 6 The plaintiff asked $33 in his original petition. A suit to quiet title and for ejectment was filed in circuit court the past week on change "f venue from Ste. Genevieve County. Joseph T. Bader asks $3,000 damages and $100 per month for rental and profits from a tract of land which he claims the defendant, Gordon Cohen, entered and occupied since May 1, 1949. The Universal C & T Credit Corporation filed suit on purchase money and chattel mortgage against Jesse R. Austin on June 7, asking judgment for $738.56 wtih interest at 6 from Jan. 18, 1956 and attorney fee of $110, on a balance due on a note signed June 6, 1955 for $3,567.34. One suit for divorce was filed, Jack Hice vs. Mary Jo Hice. Pleys Underdown, a minor, filed suit in circuit court Tuesday against Billy Gene Wadle and the Dallas and Southwest Wheel Company of Dallas, Texas, for $5,000 damages. The plaintiff's petition states that his mother, Olive J. Underdown was killed in a collision between her car, a 1948 Chrysler coupe, and the 1955 International Tractor and Trailer unit driven by Wadle as an agent of the Dallas and Southwest Wheel Company. Also filed Tuesday was a suit for divorce by Gelene-Aytes Lewis vs. Eugene Lewis. well over a half million dollars of $536,939.00 TRANSPORTATION AID 37,910.00 45,572.00 $ 85348.00 CHILDREN ALU J 9510.00 4631,488.00 seventy motor vehicles or mobile regarding Bingo games and Circuit Court Divorce Actions Take Much of Court's Time A petition for custody of the two minor children of Robert and Ruth Adele Neunuebel took up the entire session of circuit Tuesday. The mother of Ruth Ann and Ed ward was awarded their custody from August 29 to June 1 subject to the right of the father to visit them within the state of Missouri excepting the first week of each month from Friday at 6 p.m., to Sunday at 0 p.m. Custody was awarded to the father from June 1 to August 25 to visit them at reasonable times subject to the right of the mother during that period. The father, Robert Neunebel. was ordered to pay $150 per month for the children's support while they are in custody of the mother and $100 per month during the time that they are with him. The court retained exclusive jurisdiction over the children until further orders are made. A divorce suit filed bv Ruth Adele Neunuebel waa continued. Two motions for new trials were tiled in circuit court last week. Bruce Glaser was granted a new trial in his suit for damage against Ward E. Eieman on the grounds that the court had erred in failing to strike remarks made by defend ant's counsel and in instructing the ury to disregard those remarks. Glaser had claimed that Wieman struck him on the jaw and asked $500 actual and $5,000 punitive damages and a jury had given a verdict for the defendant on April 14. 1956. Overruled was motion filed by Milton W. Hessel in his case against William Casey. Hessel had asked $75,000 damages because of an automobile accident on Feb. 23, 1952 and a jury had awarded him $3,000 damages. Appeal bond was fixed at $300. A suit of delinquent sales tax filed against S. C. Kimberlin, owner, Roy Dzurick, successor, doing business as Kimberlin's Din-O-Tel, was dismissed by the state at the costs of the state. The state asked $420 with penalty of $42 and interest from March, 1955. Also dismissed by plaintiff was a case filed by Travelers Insurance Company against Lillian F. Vitt. The petition as filed asked the court to cancel an insurance policy for $2500 issued to Hadley Vttt on April 2, 1954, claiming that he was not in good health at the time. He died May 9, 1955. The Euclid Sales and Service dis missed a case against J. M. Lynch and Winter Brothers Material Co., the costs taxed to the plaintiff. Divorce suits dismissed were: Berniece L. Jones vs. Jimmie C. Jones; Wm. Long vs. Emma Kath- erina Long; Phyllis Redhage vs. Willie J. Redhage; Betty Jean Mooney vs. David Mooney. Four divorces were granted: Ervin Earl Hilse from Melva Hilse; Catherine M. Kendrick from Walter Keudrick with custody of their two children, Walter and Dennis James, and $20 per week for their support; Mary Frances Dixon from James A. Dixon with restoration of her former name, Mary F. Casey; Allie Cain from Milord H. Cain with restoration of former name, Allie Stroup, and $400 alimony in gross, costs and attorney fee of $75. Set for Friday, July 20 is the divorce suit of Donna Rose Huff vs. Marvin Huff. Set for August 7 is the divorce suit of Nellie G. Smith vs. Leroy Henry Smith. Passed for announement or setting to Aug. 7 were the following auits: Nathalie Flak vs. Maurice Flake; Clair E. Matlock va. Mary Ellen Matlock; Joseph F. Marshall vs. Shirley Marshall; Lola Richards vs. Lawrence Richards; Lola Jenkins vs. Earl L. Jenkins; Dolores OToole vs. Gordon OToole; and Wesley L Turner vs. Ira.D. Faks,

STATE HISTORICAL SSCIETT CCLUSSIA, KO. UN fl6)DPDBMI THE MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN FRANKLIN COUNTY Established In the Year 1865 UNION, FRANKLIN COUNTY. MISSOURI. THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1956 10 CENTS VOLUME 91-No. 20 Recover 5 Rifles Stolen from Club House On Meramec Deputy Sheriff Earl Bailey returned Tuesday from a trip to Kansas City where he recovered five rifles abandoned in the woods near the city by three young Inmates of the Franklin County jail. James H. Richardson, 17, Bourbon, went along on the trip with Bailey and showed him where the rifles had been hidden. Three of the rifles had been stolen by the boys from a clubhouse owned by Walter Kautzner of Affton, on the Old Bowman Place near Meramec State Park. The other two are thought to have been stolen in Crawford County and brought along on the trip which finally ended in their arrest in Kansas. Richardson, along with Junior Lloyd McClary, 18, and Russell H. Mercer, ID, both of Berger, left Bourbon on June 12 in a stolen motor boat. The owner was on hand to meet them when they arrived at Meramec State Park but the boys fled into the woods when they were hailed and told to bring the boat to shore. It was Thursday that they are believed to have stolen a car in St. Clair and started for Kansas City where they were apprehended by authorities. They were brought to Franklin County jail later where they are awaiting trial on the car theft charge. Wins Fishing Trip To Canada Ben Thomas of the local Kroger Store was advised by the Kroger Company this week that he had won a trip to Canada in the Hormel Hamarama Contest. As a member of the Winners' Circle, Thomas will leave St. Louis Sunday, July 15 by air for Interna tional Falls and go from there by car and boat to Gwan-At-Shi-Wan Island. Fishing, golf and sightseeing are on the agenda with an excursion to Fort Frances, Canada, also. The group will return to St. Louis on Wednesday, July. 18 at 8 p.m. - -. Two Found Guilty Ask for Parole Two men entered pleas of guilty to grand larceny in circuit court last week and filed applications for parole. They are Edmund Carl Lang and Howard Franklin Tinnell. Each was sentenced to two years in the State Penitentiary. Applications for parole were taken under advisement by Judge Joseph T. Tate. Voiture 301 Forty & Eight Elects Offictrs New officers were elected at Augusta July 6, at the meeting of Voiture 301, 40 et 8. Delegates and alternates were also selected for the Grand Promenade at St. Joseph July 27, 28 and 29. The delegates: Walter Buchholtz, Chas. Dreimey-er, Richard Hoemann, Waldrew Meyer and Clarence. The alternates: Edwin Vedder, Gilmore Pfeiffer, E. G. Labit, William Strithman and Eddie Leesman. Officers for the coming year are: Chef de Gare, Waldrew Meyer, Augusta; Chef de Train, Gilmore Pfeiffer, Union; Commissaire In-tendant, Henry Tibbe, Union; Correspondent, Oliver Bachus, Augusta; Aumonier, Eldon Kandlebinder, St. Clair; Commis Voyageur, Frank Fink, Union; Garde de la Porte, Eddie Leesman, Washington; Lampiste, Emmet Reed, St. Clair; Conducteur, Matthew Hamilton, New Haven; Sous Conducteur, James Arnett, Pacific; Cheminoux Lacaux, Chas. Dreimeyer, Marthas-ville; Harvey Eckman, New Haven; James Desmond, New Haven; and Grand Cheminot, Walter Buchholtz, New Haven. The Weeks Weather Temperatures extremes, rainfall and Bourbeuse River stages (feet above normal) as reported by U. S. Weather Bureau Observer Cornelius Sieges. Rainfall is measured at 7 a.m. daily. Thus, rainfall for Thursday is actually rainfall between 7 a.m. Wednesday and 7 a.m. Thursday. A trace is an amount too small to measure. For the week ending Tuesday, July 10: High Low Rain 90 67 M 83 68 .02 86 62 .... 89 60 .... 85 65 JSO 77 62 .... 83 S3 . Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Represents Union At Heart Of America Show Miss Mary Anna Krieger of Union will represent the Union Furniture Company of this city the Heart of America Furniture Market to be held in Kansas City August 3 to 6, as a candidate for queen. Miss Krieger, 22, is a graduate of Union High School and secre tary for the Union Furniture Com pany. She will compete with contest ants from furniture companies throughout Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri. Three winners will be select ed to attend the Market Luncheon in Kansas City at which time the queen will be named. In addition to her other honors, the queen will receive a mink stole as her badge of honor. Kenneth Wehmueller of the sponsoring company will also at tend the Market at which more than 2,000 leading midwest furniture dealers select the latest styles of furniture for winter showing. Union Man Award ed $15,000 for Per- Injuries A jury heard testimony in a dam age suit Monday and awarded the plaintiff the exact amount of damages prayed for in his petition. The plaintiff was Meivin Ober- haus of Union who charged he received personal injuries amounting to $15,000 and damages to his car amounting to $1,072.45 in an automobile accident in Jefferson City on August 21, 1955. The plaintiff was Eugene Em- mett Eichwald of Sullivan. Richard G. Shepard was foreman of the jury which reached a unanimous decision and found for the plaintiff in the sum of $16,072.45. Beaufort 4-H and Home Ec Clubs Celebrate Third annual Fourth of July cele bration sponsored by the Beau fort Home Economics Club opened with a colorful parade on Monday, July 2. Gaily decorated bicycles and floats participated along with the Beaufort 4-H candidate for queen, Margaret Boland. A display of fireworks closed the evening's entertainment. Prizes for the best bicycles went to Joyce Peters, Billy Knehansand Helen Segelhorst. Winners for the other vehicles were Brenda Eller brake, Diane Heidbrink and Jan Schuenemeyer. Another Wreck On Washington Road Norman Lee Speers, Washington, escaped without serious injuries when he lost control of his 1952 Oldsmobile and crashed about two and one-half miles south of Wash ington on Highway 47 at 2 a.m., July Fourth. Speers told the Highway Patrol that he thought he had dozed off while driving. He was .taken to the hospital with an injured left arm but was discharged when it was ascertained that he had no broken bones and only mionr injuries. YWA's To Hollister Mr. and Mrs. George Osborn and Mr. and Mrs. James Copeland drove a group of Union girls to Hollister last week to attend the YWA state camp aPthe State Bap tist Assembly. Mr. Osborn and Mr. Copeland drove on to Bull Shoals Lake for a fishing trip, returning Sunday to drive the group home, Attending from Union were Mary Jo Skaggs, Virginia Skaggs, Alice Skaggs, Marlene Campbell, Rosemary Copeland and Pat Os born, Mrs. Osborn, counsellor and Mrs. Copeland, assistant counsel lor. S: A Accuses Tenants Of Trying To II Put Her Away II Tourists,--who drove into town late Thursday afternoon with 74- year-old woman battling them in the front teat, caused a mild flurry of excitement when they stopped in front of the courthouse and tried to persuade local authorities to have their passenger placed in custody. The passenger was Mrs. Ora Bowers of Ohio. The tourists were tenants of Mrs. Bowers in Ohio who had agreed to take her along on a trip to California to visit relatives. They told Sheriff H. Bill Miller and Union police that Mrs. Bowers had become upset in California where she had been placed in a county home on a petition of men tal illness. Authorities had released her to be taken to her home in Akron where she owned property and could be properly cared for. She became violent at Spring field, they said, and at Sullivan where they stopped to eat had ac cused a waitress of trying to poison her. She claimed the couple was trying to have her put away so that they could get her money. Sheriff Miller explained that there were no facilities in the county for caring for such cases and advised them to take her to St. Louis where she could be treat ed and then released to authorities in her home county. Arrangements were made for a patrol car to escort them to St. Louis and nothing further was heard from them. Magistrate Court Parole Revoked for Drunkedness; In Jail Now Charles Bay, Union, was arrested Tuesday and brought into magis trate court where his parole was revoked for drinking. Bay was committed to jail to serve out his sentence on a peace distrubance charge. . A motorcycle rider and a Sulli van driver paid highest careless and reckless drivers fines for the week. Victor F. Meyer of Marthas ville, the cyclist, and William Tyree of Sullivan, each paid $250 but the latter was given a 60-day suspend ed jail sentence in addition to his fine. Hewie James Powell of Pacific was fined $50 and given a 60-day suspended jail sentence and Albert W. Mueller of Beaufort, a $50 fine Carl Dyer of St. Louis was fined $40 and Jack E. Aitken of East St Louis, $25. Courtney R. Harris of St. Louis paid $50. Fifteen other cases brought the total of 24 with total fines amount ing to $850.00. Punishment wis deferred in the case of Robert P. Golden of St Louis who was released on $500 bond and Walter E. Phinney of Springfield was given 30 days in jail, stayed, in addition to his fine of $5. Overlength and overweight fines brought a total of $100 with only two of the six defendants from this state. Two women and one man paid fines of $1 each with costs for fishing without 1956 permits. They were Beatrice and William Slaughter of St. Louis and Ruth Held of St. Ann. Leo C. Williams of Wagoner, Okla.. who paid $5 fine for driving an overweight vehicle, was also fined $140 for having no Public Service Commission authority. Also fined for the same charge were John Allen Amos, Los Angeles, $100; John J. Daugherty, Inman. Neb.. $50; Hosie E. White ner, Chicasha, Okla., $20; Kenneth R. Neilson, Hortonvtlle, Wis., $30; Cecil Faean. Dallas. $200; Will R Fuller, Ennis, Texas, $200; Gaylord Robuch, Janesville, Wis., $203 Jose Marie Munoz, Nogales, Ariz. $10. Elmer Lee Shovan, Denver, was fined $50 for having defective brakes and Jay Dee Garrison, Springdale, Ark., $10 for having an imoroDer muffler. Orville E. McCabe, St. Louis, paid $10 for permitting an un authorized person to drive. Walter Cass of St Clair was re leased on $2,000 bond on July 4, charged with breaking into the home of Richard Hemker ana tax ing personal property. His case is set for July 11. Also released was Jesse Thomas, 42, Guy, Kentucky, after being held in jail at Sullivan and then in county jail at union. Thomas was arrested after he drove from St. Clair to Sullivan on the wrong side of the highway and struck a tractor-trailer driven by Thomas F. Williams of Rolla The hearing is set for August 25, Bond for Thomas was set at $1,000 More Than 50,000 Gallons of Oil for Union Sheets Plus Over 1,000 Tons of Pea Gravel s)-rA , xy A V " ' ' A -A-As-? As?'-- Union's Street Department has since last week applying oil and pea gravel to the main streets. Before they are finished a majority of the streets will have been oiled. In fact, the oiling program .this year is about three times as large as last year. Applying New High School Building Plans Approved By Sfate Plans for Union's new high presented doctor and hospital bills school building have been appro ed by the State Department of Edu- cation, Superintendent Vergil Sis- son told the R-ll Board of Edu- cation at their regular meeting last Friday night. Sisson and the Board's architect, Raymond X. Grueninger, of St. Louis made a trip to Jefferson City the day before to confer with the state authorities. . Grueninger is now working oa details which will be submitted to the Board for final approval along with plans for the gymnasium in the near future. The Board expects to be able to call for bids within the next three months. The Board voted to extend the student accident and health insur- ance program inaugurated last year for another year. The program is purely voluntary and costs but $1.25 per year for any student wishing to participate. It was re- ported to the Board that a number of small claims had been paid by the company last year in addition to two large ones. One boy, injured while working in industrial arts, received between $300 and $400 and a second about $95 when he broke his arm. Both amounts re- Gerald Home Ec Achievement Day Well Attended Quick breads baked by Mrs. Lorene Francis, county home agent, were featured in the covered dish luncheon served at noon to guests attending the annual Achievement Day of the Community Home Economics Club at the home of Mrs. Ray Stanek, Gerald, on July 5. Also demonstrated by Mrs. Fran cis was linoleum block printing. Club members showed summer dresses and scrap books at the afternoon meeting and each re ceived a plant to cultivate during the summer and bring to the October Achievement Day for comparison.Girls from New Haven and Gerald 4-H Clubs gave demonstration on the use of milk and ice cream and Alan Meyer and George Stanek of Community 4-H Club demonstrated sheep raising. Members were asked to report at the August council meeting on prospective members of garden clubs in their neighborhoods. Ernest Oltmann called the square dances which followed the business meeting. On account of the club's boat trip the next meeting will be the second Thursday in August at night at the home of Mrs. John Boland. Attending the Achievement Day were Mrs. E. A. Birkmann, Mrs L. H. Kansteiner, Beaufort; Mrs. R. H. Pehle, Mrs. Ervin Rohlfing, over Leaf; Mrs. Lester Meyer, Mrs. Henry Hubenthal, Mrs. John Boland, Community Club: Mrs. Otto Schmidt, Mrs. Chester Brauks, Gerald Cooperative dub; Mrs. Ralph Deppennann, Mrs. George Schuenemeyer, Friendly Neighbors uud; Mrs. Robert Tbieme. Mrs. J. M. HcKnight, Gerald Homemakers; ' - - "" 1 '" " '-" ' ' i been busy pea gravel, after time. In the Curly Owens, er Oscar Lampkm, and Wm. Schafferkoetter gallons of oil and paid and costs of x-rays. W. G. Klepper was re-appointed treasurer for the Board for the coming school year. A report on the Summer Recrea Hon program showed that 140 stu- dents registered from both Public and I. C. Schools with an average attendance of about 40. Resignations of Mrs. Joanne Rogers, second grade teacher, and (Jeirg Billv bus driv expert AC- cepted.. Mrs. Rogers is moving to Wellston and Biller will ;?o into the package liquor business. No replacements have been se cured. Bus drivers and janitors will be hired at the next meeting of the Board. A report on the Elementary Summer School showed that Mrs. Hibbard taught 35 pupils in spell ing and reading; Arthur W. Davis, 5 pupils in eighth grade science and two pupils in American His tory; Gus Boehm, one high school senior who made up credits necess- ary for graduation. Ine summer school lasted from May 28 to July 6th. The Board also voted to divide the business of bus maintenance and repair equally betweenhe six new car agencies in Union. Utilities Assessed for $177,495,425 The assessment of the various public utilities in Franklin County has been certified to Eugene H. Osiek, county clerk. There is a substantial raise over last year of the 16 utilities, which includes the railroads, telegraph and telephone, pipe lines and electric companies. The total valuation including real estate and personal property amounts to $17,495,425. The Union Electric Co. is valued at $8,057,-058.00 and the Southwestern Bell Telephone at $2,697,150.00. With the personal property and real estate valuations as listed in the Tribune last week, the total valuation now is $60,275,012.00. When the Merchants and Manufacturers valuations are added to this amount, the valuation for this county may show an increase of over $1,300,000.00. Red Cross Meeting July 16 A Red Cross meeting has been called for Monday, July 16 at 8 p.m., in the county court room in Union, according to Mrs. E. A Stierberger, secretary. There will be important business to come before the meeting and all persons interested are urged to be present in order that Red Cross services and the Red Cross Blood Program may be confined in Franklin County. Mrs. John Disharoon, Mrs. Sidney Burt, Mrs. Oliver Taetz, Gray Sum mit; Miss Louis McDermott, Jolly Workers; Mrs. Frank Mehro, Mrs Doren Cresswell, Meramec Home- makers; Mrs. Perrin Farm, Mrs. Herbert Lottmann, Spring Bluff; Mist Elfrieda Sieve, Mrs. Ursa Maddox, Mrs. George Saum, Miss Arlene Saum, Sunshine Club; and Mrs. Lorene Francis, county home agent. (Dickey's Studio! I the oil bath, takes a lot of photo above, from the left is Coy Crider, Street Commission The city expects to use more than 50,000 over 1000 tons of pea gravel. County WPFA Gr JFA Days In Union July 20-21 The annual Assembly Day and County Convention of WPFA and JFA will be held jointly in the Union Elementary School. Entries in canning contest, articles, made from feed bags and JFA Crafts must be registered by 11 a.m. on Friday July 20th in the school cafeteria room. Judging will begin promptly at noon. County WPFA Convention meet ing will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, i July 2M in tM grH rhml aurt- itorium: The JFA Convention will be held at the tame time in a classroom of the grade school. Officers for the coming year will be elected at this time. A special feature of the morn ing for the ladies, is a report by County Home Agent Mrs. Lorene Francis. Awards will be given in the Membership Contest and Lady of the Year Contest. Points for the alter contest are to be turned n by 1 a m. the day of the con vention. Pennies for Friendship are to be turned in during the morning session. The afternoon program will be highlighted by the joint installa tion service of the newly elected officers of the JFA and WPFA, by Mrs. Henry Blesi, former county president. This will be followed by pecial recognition of the thirty year memDers, wnose names have been sent to the county secre tary. Franklin County's representa tive in the JFA Public Speaking Contest, Miss Sharon Carlson of Indian Prairie JFA, will address the gathering in the afternoon. All clubs are urged to send their quota of delegates to the conven tion. Visitors are most welcome and especially invited to view the display of canned foods and feed bag articles. There are 16 classes in the Feed Bag contest ranging from quilts to boys' suits and lingerie. There is no admission charge. The display will be in the basement cafeteria until 3 p.m. Saturday. State Aid To Schools In County Over Half Million County Superintendent O. E. Burke completed drafting the applica tion to the Slate of Missouri for state aid for the 195657 school year. In fact the grand total runs $631,488.00 which will be paid in three installments the August, December and March payments. High School districts, of course, receive the greatest amount, $395,658.00, with the reorganized elementary districts coming next with $105,753.00. Mr. Burke divided his applications Into three classifications, Gen eral Aid, Transportation and Exceptional Children Aid. Here are the applications for each one of these groups and their different classifications: GENERAL AID Common School Districts (3 directors) $ 35,528.00 Reorganized elementary districts 105,753.00 High School districts - 395,658.00 Common school districts (3 directors) $ 1,866 00 Reorgamzed elementary districts High School districts EACEtnUNALi High School districts (two) Total state school Money kcnooi Transportation Travels Over Half Million Mile During the school year 1955-56, units transported 2196 elementary school children and 822 high school students for a total of 453369 school days. These school buses traveled about 3360 miles each school day or a total of 988,000 mnes during uus past tcnooi year. Grand Jury To Check Report Of Some Gambling In County Acting at the request of County Prosecutor James A. Cole and Sheriff H. Bill Miller, Judge Jostph T. Tate issued an order in circuit court Monday calling for a grand Jury. Primary purpose of the grand jury, according to the Erosecuting attorney, will be to investigate all forms of gambl-lg in the county under the recent Supreme Court ruling. Both the prosecutor and the sheriff told a representative of the Tribune Tuesday that they had received complaints from citizens all over the county raffles, particularly at picnics. Sheriff Miller said that the list of jurors will not be ready for publication until next week since all had not been served. The grand jury will consist of twelve citizens who will hear testimony and then decide whether or not there are sufficent grounds for an indictment. While the principal purpose is the investigation of gambling, any forms of law violation may be presented to the group at that time. JFA Livestock Show In Union July 25th JFA Livestock Show groups of Warren and Franklin Counties met at the MFA HaU in Union last week to complete plans for the show to be given July 25 at the City Park in Union. Entries will be open to members from Warren and Franklin Counties and judging will be at 11 a.m. Committees appointed were: Publicity, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dueb-bert, Mrs. Harry Vogt, Mrs. Ruby Tappe, Mrs. Dorothy Minks; Fi nance, Ralph Bolzenius, Herbert Schowe, Fred Brehe; Poultry and Rabbits, Robert Zingre, Joe Jas per, Herman Leuker, Earl Schowe; Hogs, Beef k Sheep, Arthur Bruns, Aug. Johnson, Henry Blesi, W. O. Horn, assisted by the National Livestock group; Dairy, Arnold Thiermann, Willard Leuker, Harry Vogt and Norman Leesmann. Circuit Court Filing Brought on appeal from Magis trate court was a suit on account filed by Larry Hagedorn against Jim Moore. The appeal is from $20 against the defendant rendered in magistrate court on June 6 The plaintiff asked $33 in his original petition. A suit to quiet title and for ejectment was filed in circuit court the past week on change "f venue from Ste. Genevieve County. Joseph T. Bader asks $3,000 damages and $100 per month for rental and profits from a tract of land which he claims the defendant, Gordon Cohen, entered and occupied since May 1, 1949. The Universal C & T Credit Corporation filed suit on purchase money and chattel mortgage against Jesse R. Austin on June 7, asking judgment for $738.56 wtih interest at 6 from Jan. 18, 1956 and attorney fee of $110, on a balance due on a note signed June 6, 1955 for $3,567.34. One suit for divorce was filed, Jack Hice vs. Mary Jo Hice. Pleys Underdown, a minor, filed suit in circuit court Tuesday against Billy Gene Wadle and the Dallas and Southwest Wheel Company of Dallas, Texas, for $5,000 damages. The plaintiff's petition states that his mother, Olive J. Underdown was killed in a collision between her car, a 1948 Chrysler coupe, and the 1955 International Tractor and Trailer unit driven by Wadle as an agent of the Dallas and Southwest Wheel Company. Also filed Tuesday was a suit for divorce by Gelene-Aytes Lewis vs. Eugene Lewis. well over a half million dollars of $536,939.00 TRANSPORTATION AID 37,910.00 45,572.00 $ 85348.00 CHILDREN ALU J 9510.00 4631,488.00 seventy motor vehicles or mobile regarding Bingo games and Circuit Court Divorce Actions Take Much of Court's Time A petition for custody of the two minor children of Robert and Ruth Adele Neunuebel took up the entire session of circuit Tuesday. The mother of Ruth Ann and Ed ward was awarded their custody from August 29 to June 1 subject to the right of the father to visit them within the state of Missouri excepting the first week of each month from Friday at 6 p.m., to Sunday at 0 p.m. Custody was awarded to the father from June 1 to August 25 to visit them at reasonable times subject to the right of the mother during that period. The father, Robert Neunebel. was ordered to pay $150 per month for the children's support while they are in custody of the mother and $100 per month during the time that they are with him. The court retained exclusive jurisdiction over the children until further orders are made. A divorce suit filed bv Ruth Adele Neunuebel waa continued. Two motions for new trials were tiled in circuit court last week. Bruce Glaser was granted a new trial in his suit for damage against Ward E. Eieman on the grounds that the court had erred in failing to strike remarks made by defend ant's counsel and in instructing the ury to disregard those remarks. Glaser had claimed that Wieman struck him on the jaw and asked $500 actual and $5,000 punitive damages and a jury had given a verdict for the defendant on April 14. 1956. Overruled was motion filed by Milton W. Hessel in his case against William Casey. Hessel had asked $75,000 damages because of an automobile accident on Feb. 23, 1952 and a jury had awarded him $3,000 damages. Appeal bond was fixed at $300. A suit of delinquent sales tax filed against S. C. Kimberlin, owner, Roy Dzurick, successor, doing business as Kimberlin's Din-O-Tel, was dismissed by the state at the costs of the state. The state asked $420 with penalty of $42 and interest from March, 1955. Also dismissed by plaintiff was a case filed by Travelers Insurance Company against Lillian F. Vitt. The petition as filed asked the court to cancel an insurance policy for $2500 issued to Hadley Vttt on April 2, 1954, claiming that he was not in good health at the time. He died May 9, 1955. The Euclid Sales and Service dis missed a case against J. M. Lynch and Winter Brothers Material Co., the costs taxed to the plaintiff. Divorce suits dismissed were: Berniece L. Jones vs. Jimmie C. Jones; Wm. Long vs. Emma Kath- erina Long; Phyllis Redhage vs. Willie J. Redhage; Betty Jean Mooney vs. David Mooney. Four divorces were granted: Ervin Earl Hilse from Melva Hilse; Catherine M. Kendrick from Walter Keudrick with custody of their two children, Walter and Dennis James, and $20 per week for their support; Mary Frances Dixon from James A. Dixon with restoration of her former name, Mary F. Casey; Allie Cain from Milord H. Cain with restoration of former name, Allie Stroup, and $400 alimony in gross, costs and attorney fee of $75. Set for Friday, July 20 is the divorce suit of Donna Rose Huff vs. Marvin Huff. Set for August 7 is the divorce suit of Nellie G. Smith vs. Leroy Henry Smith. Passed for announement or setting to Aug. 7 were the following auits: Nathalie Flak vs. Maurice Flake; Clair E. Matlock va. Mary Ellen Matlock; Joseph F. Marshall vs. Shirley Marshall; Lola Richards vs. Lawrence Richards; Lola Jenkins vs. Earl L. Jenkins; Dolores OToole vs. Gordon OToole; and Wesley L Turner vs. Ira.D. Faks,